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Prime Minister David Cameron announced the start of the campaign for Britain's May 7 election after meeting Queen Elizabeth II in Buckingham Palace to formalize the dissolution of parliament.
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One of the leading international press freedom watchdogs said in a report on Turkey that authorities' failure to safeguard the right to share and receive information has led to serious deficiencies in the country's democracy, placing its future at serious risk.
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The CoE Commissioner for Human Rights condemned the jail sentence against two cartoonists from a popular Turkish satirical magazine for allegedly insulting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, urging Turkish authorities to decriminalize defamation.
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At least a thousand people rallied in New York City to call for freedom of speech and press in Turkey following the arrests of journalists and the arrest warrant issued for cleric Fethullah Gulen.
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